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Does temperature increase or decrease with elevation in the troposphere and increase or decrease with elevation in the stratosphere? |
Decreases in the troposphere and increases in the stratosphere |
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An absolute zero what happens? |
Molecular motion stops |
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The speed at which the items in a substance are vibrating is called? |
Temperature |
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Daylight savings time was instituted to give us an extra hour of daylight during which time of day? |
The evening |
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What process explains the slow rate of snow melt on a sunny day when the temperatures are well above freezing? |
Albedo |
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What causes the Coriolis affect? |
The earths rotation |
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What to gas is comprised the majority of the atmosphere? |
Nitrogen and oxygen |
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Temperature inversion's can cause problems for agriculture because inversion cause what? |
Frost |
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Relatively hot objects like the sun radiate___ ___radiation |
Shortwave radiation |
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The northern lights are caused by what? |
Solar flares or solar storms |
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The prime meridian passes through this city |
London England |
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How many miles separate lines of latitude? |
69 miles |
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How many minutes are in a degree of latitude or longitude? |
60 |
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The value of 0° latitude occurs at what? |
The equator |
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There are___degrees of latitude and___degrees of longitude |
90° of latitude and 180° of longitude |
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The temperature on a cloudy night is likely to be___than on a clear night |
Warmer |
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The trapping of longwave radiation in the atmosphere is called what? |
The greenhouse effect |
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Solar radiation strikes the earth primarily as visible light and after being absorbed and reradiated is returned to the atmosphere in what form? |
Longwave or infrared radiation |
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Chlorofluorocarbons have played a key role in what? |
Ozone depletion |
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The two major sources of chlorofluorocarbons |
Propellants in spray cans and refrigeration air-conditioning |
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What is the shortest day of the year in Southern California? |
The December solstice |
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Which of the four spheres of physical geography includes the structural rock formation of the earth surface? |
The lithosphere |
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It is 4 PM on Tuesday and you cross the international dateline going from west to east what day and time is it now? |
Monday at 4 PM |
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The time difference between the prime meridian and the international date line is? |
12 hours |
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If it is 3 PM and you travel from the location 45° in, 130° W to the location 45° S, 130° W what time is it now? |
3 PM |
